Lectures and seminars

AHCP Research Seminars

3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Pete Gautam

14:00 - 15:00 28 April 2026
Title: tbc Abstract: tbc

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jenny Roberts (KCL)

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2026
Speaker: Jenny Roberts (KCL) Title: Newform Eisenstein congruences of local origin Abstract: The theory of Eisenstein congruences dates back to Ramanujan’s surprising discovery that…

Masterclass: Remembering Violent Histories: Against Erasure

14:00 - 15:30 28 April 2026
Claire Loughnan, University of Melbourne Through oral testimonies of those detained at the immigration prison located on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, Against Erasure focuses on…

Alternative democratic spaces: environmentalism and Algerian youth politics

16:30 29 April 2026
Dr Jessica Northey, Coventry University Host: Dr Ikram Bennai Abstract: The uprisings in the Arab world since 2011 brought profound changes. The Algerian hirak of 2019 constituted…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality

16:00 - 18:30 29 April 2026
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means…

Communities of Environmental Knowledge

12:00 - 14:00 29 April 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action. Community support and involvement are crucial to the success…

Dialogues on Enhancing Inclusive Practice: Co-leading with Fairness, Respect, Inclusion and Compassion

14:30 29 April 2026
Guest speakers: Vanita Sundaram and Kathryn Asbury, Co-Heads of the Department of Education, University of York In this talk we discuss how we developed our co-leadership model, arising…

GDI Lecture: The Toxic Effects of Border Violence, Claire Loughnan

16:30 - 18:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Claire Loughnan, University of Melbourne The recent deaths of US citizens at the hands of that country’s ICE agents signal disturbing patterns of violence and misconduct that…

Logic Seminar - Orla McGrath

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Orla McGrath (University of Leeds) TBC

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 2026
Yannan He University of Manchester

National Productivity Week - Skills, Talent and Productivity in Greater Manchester

16:30 - 18:30 29 April 2026
New research from the Centre for Economic Performance builds on the Economy 2030 Inquiry recommendation that expanding the graduate workforce in Greater Manchester by around 180,000…

Probability Seminar: Gechun Liang - Forward Optimized Certainty Equivalent and FBSDE

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2026
Gechun Liang (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Forward Optimized Certainty Equivalent and FBSDE Abstract: We extend the notion of forward performance…

SQUIDS Seminar: Optimizing the Dynamics of the Frequency Bias in Fourier Features Neural Networks

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Professor Matias Courdurier (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations often learn signals capturing low-frequency structure before…

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: 'Computational Linguistics Will Not Solve All Your Problems'

13:00 30 April 2026
Speaker: Jonathan Dunn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The age of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created an over-confidence in computational experiments. As a computational…

National Productivity Week: The Role of Regional Data in Driving Productivity

13:30 - 15:00 1 May 2026
About the Session: Understanding and improving regional productivity requires rich, place-based insights that reveal how communities, businesses, and institutions really function.…

‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 4 May 2026
Beth Singler (University of Zurich) - ‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer

14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2026
Title: tbc Abstract: tbc

Macro Seminar - Davide Melcangi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

16:00 - 17:00 5 May 2026
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Joseph Harrison (Warwick)

15:00 - 16:00 5 May 2026
Speaker: Joseph Harrison (Warwick) Title: Sum-product phenomena in algebraic groups Abstract: The cardinality of sumsets and product sets can be regarded as quantitative indicators…

Fascism: Histories and Meanings

17:30 - 19:00 6 May 2026
Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In conversation with: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) Martin Kristoffer…

Laura Marcela Balan (Libertadores): When the Other Looks Back: Mock Ethnography and the Deconstruction of Otherness in O Peixe

17:00 - 18:30 6 May 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 6 May 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will online. You can follow it here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2…

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